What is Arrokoth

Arrokoth is one of thousands of ‘icy worlds” in the Kuiper Belt, or the outer zone of the solar system that lies beyond Neptune.

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It is the farthest object in space that has been explored by a human space-craft.

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It was discovered in 2014 using the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Arrokoth is a double-lobed object and resembles a snowman.

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It is believed it may have ancient ‘gaseous ice’ stored deep within it from when the object first formed billions of years ago.

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